Come to the party at the Citadel of Crazytown as we discuss Kingsmoots, Resurrections, Sansa Stark and dragons. A lot happened on this week’s episode, so of course we’re going to talk about Jon Snow and Wun Wun smashing that guy against a wall. Da7e needs someone to tell him what is an isn’t from the book at this point, everyone has mixed feelings on the introduction of Euron. Game of Thrones heats up as the three hosts debate if things are just too safe…you know, on that show where dogs ate a baby this week.

Love your podcast you have quite a few Australian listeners, but lets get straight to the point. Hodor’s real name is in the books.
Book 1 – Game of Thrones
Bran Chapter – around page 242 in my copy, it is when Bran has first awoken and Old Nan is reading to him. Hodor comes to get him for Robb.

‘Theon Greyjoy had once commented that Hodor did not know much, but no one could doubt that he knew his name, Old Nan had cackled like a hen when Bran told her that, and confessed that Hodor’s real name was Walder. No one knew where “Hodor” had come from, she said, but when he started saying it, they started calling him by it. It was the only word he had.’

If Ramsay’s dagger was Valyrian Steel, it’s reasonable to think it would affect Westerosi vampires as it does the white walkers, their wights, and other undead creatures. IOW, Ramsay would know what it takes to kill his father.

Longtime listener, first time caller. One quick question: is there an email address that you could post? I’m not on twitter and it was a little challenging finding the right place to contact you guys.

Anyhoo…

This is regarding “Oathbreaker”. In addition to supporting #fuckolly, #ladystoneheartruthers, I am now an avid #shaggydogtruther. As lazy as some of the storytelling has been on the show (Melisandre didn’t even break a sweat bringing Jon back) (Jon 2.0 is just business as usual) this plot twist has so many holes in it I can’t take it seriously.

1. The Northern bannermen are regarded as the most loyal in all of Westeros, especially House Umber. They even acknowledge their loyalty to Ramsey himself, and refuse to kneel to him.

2. Ramsey has had it so very, very easy on the show. The Starks have had it so very, very hard. GRRM has created a world that nothing really goes anyone’s way, good or bad. the fact that the showrunners are making this dynamic so one-sided just doesn’t sit well to the way the world is in Westeros. On top of that, it is a huge violation of Westeros that no one is batting an eye at the fact that he killed his whole family in cold blood. Very un-Westerosi.

3. Direwolves are tough motherfuckers!!

4. As a littlermate to Ghost and Greywind (miss you, buddy) that is the smallest direwolf head I have ever seen.

5. There are many head/body-switching plot points in the books, none of which has been developed in the show (Mance’s baby, Faegon, etc). At this point in the books, there is a tet-a-tete with Ser Mandalay and Davos vs. Cersei. The Mandalays are truly loyal to the Starks, but are playing the long con and use a head posed as Davos to send down to Cersei. Ramsay’s hubris would make it easy for him to accept this “gift” only to be betrayed later by House Umber. Ideally with Shaggydog joining the fight and ripping his throat out.

I would love to hear your thoughts and hopefully I’m not simply in denial at the loss of another direwolf. Love the podcast!

Hi, I think you should discuss all spoilers, even production spoilers. This show is called a Storm of Spoilers afterall. If some people don’t like, perhaps you can preface production spoilers with a spoiler about spoilers.

Maybe we can do a special section about car spoilers, just to make sure we are talking about all the spoilers. “My name is Da7e Gonzales and I like to use wind resistance to increase my tire traction, but I haven’t read any books by George RR Martin.”